From one of KTOWN’s bestest friend’s father…
Blame game on energy won’t revive dead horse
I continue beating this dead horse in the dim hope that it might
revive. The bleating sheep in Congress continue being herded by the
roaring voices of environmental extremists. High Priest Al Gore
continues to occupy the unassailable pulpit in the Church of Global
Warming Doom. How can we, the unwashed, be so presumptuous as to think
of breaking the politically correct code of silence to offer contrary
opinions?High gasoline prices? No new refineries in 30 years and
ever-increasing reliance on foreign crude are not an issue here. Evil
corporate American oil companies are to blame. They are actually
making money for their efforts. Some are actually making 8 percent
profit and should be punished for this nongovernment-like result.
Nobody should be allowed to make that much. Let’s hit them with an
excess profit tax.Nuclear power plants? How can we even consider this alternative to
fossil fuel when one of those plants actually shut itself down at
Three Mile Island a few decades ago? Let’s distill food grain into
ethanol. It has 66 percent of the energy of an equivalent amount of
petroleum fuel, and nobody will notice that little difference in
vehicle efficiency.Grocery prices will rise, but we can cut back on eating. Most of us
are too fat, anyhow.The dead horse of common sense is inert and my arm is getting tired.
How I wish we ordinary folks had the ear of some of those bleating
sheep.W.S. Pryor
Knoxville
But what does he know. W.S. Pryor only worked in the oil business for decades.